p2bc
September 29th, 2009, 10:20 PM
Something to make you go hmmm!!!!
For the record I have done this on 3 laptops, latest one 2 months ago, now can't get is to work. :confused:
I have the WICD network manager DEB on a USB thumb drive for those times that I am installing Linux on a new laptop, all of which has been Kubuntu. I install WICD because no offence but the network-manager for Kubuntu is less than ideal for wireless communication on a laptop.
So I usually have my bag of tricks when it come to installing Linux on a new system in the form of a USB key. I have used it to set up 3 laptops in the past year, it has the ISO file of Distro and a partition for any DEBs I need, mainly WICD so I can get the network running then I can install the others off the net.
Recently I bought a 500gig hard drive for one of the computes I had work on before, and was getting ready to do a transplant. I miss placed the USB key so I simply download another copy of the ISO 9.04, the same version as the USB, and copied the same WICD deb file that I keep on my laptop for those rare occasion you need a backup.
So to stress again same version and file of the ISO and DEB file that I have used 3 times before.
Transplanted the hard drive, installed the Kubuntu, went to install the DEB file, now for some reason, I am missing dependencies. WTF!!! Never had that problem before. It alway installed straight. So I track down ALL the dependencies, and there were ALOT, and got it all installed, or at least I thought. Did a:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager
...because the two would conflict, and as I had also learned 3 install ago, again a proceedure i was quite use to by now. Restart the computer... and nothing.
Copied over the wpa-supplicant file that I use as a template and modified it. Did a:
sudo /etc/init.d/wicd start
... get the big OK, still nothing. Double check http://wicd.net/download.php, everything seems in order.
So I am out of ideas as to what could be the problem. Like I said, done this before with no problems, all of a sudden I need dependencies, and not getting a connection or and icon on my desktop. Get nothing actually, not even able to configure WICD. It is kind of similar to when the first time I tried all this and did not know to remove network-manager, it just seems to lag there.
Any suggestions would be great.
I am :confused:
For the record I have done this on 3 laptops, latest one 2 months ago, now can't get is to work. :confused:
I have the WICD network manager DEB on a USB thumb drive for those times that I am installing Linux on a new laptop, all of which has been Kubuntu. I install WICD because no offence but the network-manager for Kubuntu is less than ideal for wireless communication on a laptop.
So I usually have my bag of tricks when it come to installing Linux on a new system in the form of a USB key. I have used it to set up 3 laptops in the past year, it has the ISO file of Distro and a partition for any DEBs I need, mainly WICD so I can get the network running then I can install the others off the net.
Recently I bought a 500gig hard drive for one of the computes I had work on before, and was getting ready to do a transplant. I miss placed the USB key so I simply download another copy of the ISO 9.04, the same version as the USB, and copied the same WICD deb file that I keep on my laptop for those rare occasion you need a backup.
So to stress again same version and file of the ISO and DEB file that I have used 3 times before.
Transplanted the hard drive, installed the Kubuntu, went to install the DEB file, now for some reason, I am missing dependencies. WTF!!! Never had that problem before. It alway installed straight. So I track down ALL the dependencies, and there were ALOT, and got it all installed, or at least I thought. Did a:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager
...because the two would conflict, and as I had also learned 3 install ago, again a proceedure i was quite use to by now. Restart the computer... and nothing.
Copied over the wpa-supplicant file that I use as a template and modified it. Did a:
sudo /etc/init.d/wicd start
... get the big OK, still nothing. Double check http://wicd.net/download.php, everything seems in order.
So I am out of ideas as to what could be the problem. Like I said, done this before with no problems, all of a sudden I need dependencies, and not getting a connection or and icon on my desktop. Get nothing actually, not even able to configure WICD. It is kind of similar to when the first time I tried all this and did not know to remove network-manager, it just seems to lag there.
Any suggestions would be great.
I am :confused: